Passed away, aged 87, today.
In my opinion, the most important/influential man in English football since WWII…
Jimmy Hill
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Passed away, aged 87, today.
In my opinion, the most important/influential man in English football since WWII…
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Have to agree.
Kit Sponsors
Electronic Scoreboards
All-Seater Stadia
Removal of maximum wage
3 points for a win
Ex-pro as one pundit
Football discussion shows without showing footage
All either invented by him, or ushered in under his leadership.
As a Coventry City supporter I am struggling to think of a single person who has left such a lasting legacy on our city.
Also the George Eastham restraint & trade debacle.
Shame he thought racism was funny.
This isn’t the first comment of that ilk that I’ve seen on social media. I think it’s a shame that someone who lived such a rich life is defined by a daft comment he made in his old age.
I wasn’t initially certain whether this comment was a joke or not. I’d hoped it was a clever, satirical dig at the virtue-signalling buffoons who rush to parade their moral purity and superiority while the corpse of the ‘offender’ is still warm.
Jimmy Hill was an incredibly influential figure in his field who profoundly changed the lives and working conditions of his fellow professionals. He clearly had a restless intelligence which he put to great use in the service of the game he loved.
Completely agree.
He was football for me in the mid 1970s until I lost interest in the late 1980s
Also the father of the “Jimmy Hill!” rebuke when a school friend claimed they were (say) going out with Clare Grogan. I know Baddiel and Newman said “chinny reck-on” but we didn’t say that, just a doubtful rub of the chin and “chin rub” or “Jimmy Hill”.
That helps explain a school thing I have never understood from the 1970s.
At my school if someone met with an unexpected pain e.g. fell over and cut their knee some fellow pupils would occasionally gather round and say “Suffer” whilst stoking their chin.
The stroking of the chin is now understood.
The suffering was to be expected in my school!
That’s a very dark image – like a scene from Village of the Damned. Brr…
Normal for Norfolk in the 1970s!
I’ve just been listening to a lovely programme on 5 live about him. A true footballing giant. ❤️
A frivolous point, but Jim certainly had that jazz/ folk hipster look nailed at the turn of the 50s.
Jimmy will be remembered with affection and in some cases, derision -in particular by Scottish football fans who steadfastly questioned his sexuality – but like Alan Partridge, the old chinwagger certainly had the last laugh.
3 wives and numerous unexplained appearances in Viz magazine strips.
RIP Back of the Net.